Its a Happy 1st Year Birthday for Ethan

It's somebody's birthday!

There we are in our birthday hat :)

Presents

Presents

Everybody settles in for a puppet show!

And here is the puppets!

The story is thoroughly engaging to all

Everybody gets to pet the puppets

Time for cupcakes :)

Yum! First Cupcake!

A Review of Fall

I missed a few posts with how busy Fall got around our house.  I have a few minutes to put together the highlights of our fall excursions.  Enjoy!

The swing becomes a playground favorite

Ruby and I take a row boat on Jamaica Pond, and she rows!

And rows more!

Ruby dances with the sail boats gliding by...

Tricia captures me with Jamaica Pond behind me

We celebrate our anniversary with a dinner out with the kids in the South End

The Ruby Unicorn is sighted in the urban wild near our house!

Bob Terry, the 1st grade class pet came home with us and ate a donut

We went to the MFA for the Murakami art show (those are his flower cartoons)

We saw Aunt Michelle on our visit to Ohio

We started scooting, and climbing on things (in October and November!)

Pumpkin Time

In October, 

we choose to spend a crisp Fall day to take to kids to the local pumpkin patch (@ Alendale Farm) with their pumpkin shirts on and match orange with orange.

(This is a little out of order, but it's still a lot of fun in Orange!)

Look at the two of them

Lost in a sea of orange

Hay!

More Hay!

Fun!

Little pumpkin

Now its carving time!

Ruby busy on her design

Looks like a cat

Mommy and Ruby carve together!

Our neighbors join us!

Daddy's, Ruby's and Ethan's Jack o' Lanterns (right to left)

Us in our Halloween outfits (Monkee Emogi, Lion and Ballerina Princess)

There's the little Lion

Ready for some trick o' treating!

Another pic of the Ballerina Princess

Happy Halloween Everyone!

ETHAN - 1 Year Old Portrait Day

We took the day to document and make a polished looking portrait of Ethan at his one-year mark.

A white sheet, and some lighting, and waaaay too much haggling over what we would or could wear produced these two results.

Tah-dah!

In our little performer outfit

Here we are, in proper Lumber Jack form! (with a shine of our little bottom teeth visible)

Ethan, You're 1 Year old!

Chronicling the year, we celebrated Ethan's birthday every 18th of the month, so there were a lot of cupcakes this past year!

Here's how the cupcake plan worked out --- Happy Birthday little guy!

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November! One Year Old!